Listening
1. The Folger Consort is a model chamber music ensemble that plays 12th-18th century music. Julie's mentor/professor?
2. They are all dances found in Renaissance Europe; a bransle moves mainly from side to side, and is performed by couples in either a line or a circle; the pavane is a slow processional dance in duple meter; the galliard is in triple meter.
3. She was immensely popular; she could speak 5 languages fluently by adulthood; she refused to marry.
4. Lute player with degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge in music; employed by Queen Elizabeth.
5. A lute is a plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back. It has more strings and is older than the guitar, along with having a different shape.
6. Many suspect that he was having an affair with a young man (based on sonnets describing the poet's passionate love for a young man), even though he was married to a woman and had three children.
7. It is sung by Feste in Act II, scene iii
8. It is a rather sad sounding, and the lyrics certainly reflect that.
9. Often, people get other people to fight their battles for them at any expense, but it doesn't provide any inner peace to make others do the dirty work.